Word: couriers
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Barry Bingham Sr. barely missed the unveiling of his own monument. After a family tiff prompted him to sell the Louisville Courier-Journal and other media properties in 1986, the former publisher put $2.6 million from the sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400 ft.) floating fountain. Its 41 jets will spout 15,800 gal. of Ohio River water every minute in a 20-minute computer-controlled cycle of designs, culminating in the fleur- de-lis, Louisville's official symbol. Tens of thousands gathered Friday night to watch the fountain's spectacular debut. Bingham...
...Ariza serving "as the hypotenuse." Florentino becomes obsessed with Fermina, who is about 13, and he writes her passionate, though unsuccessful, love letters. In typical Latin American fashion, the young woman is chaperoned and kept at a safe distance from suitors. Fermina's aunt agrees to serve as a courier, however, and soon the two fall hoplessly in love, exchanging piles and piles of stamps, envelopes and surreptitious locks of braided hair...
...House Lawyer Gerald Hollingsworth indicates that Scott Donaldson's forthcoming biography of John Cheever has been shorn of some of Cheever's illustrative and idiosyncratic phrases. Last year Macmillan shelved The Binghams of Louisville after a copyright challenge from Family Patriarch Barry Bingham Sr., former head of the Louisville Courier-Journal media empire...
...leader of a banana republic, as part of a bribe to get him to buy the contractor's armored personnel carriers. The president of the banana republic then gives the dollar as part of a kickback to the local drug king, who gives it to help pay a drug courier, who spends it to buy a Coke when it gets to the United States. But the cashier drops it on the street and you find it." By now we were back in my room...
With his $5 million inheritance, the widower Bingham bought the Louisville Courier-Journal, but it was under his son's stewardship that the paper developed a liberal editorial voice and worked its way onto the short list of the country's best newspapers. Though Mary wrote some of the editorials, she did not always practice enlightened attitudes at home; infuriated after discovering that a black youngster had used the family swimming pool, she had the water drained. Intent on imbuing her children with proper manners and noblesse oblige, she ended up attempting to run their lives. Her husband, meanwhile, remained...